Confidential to any woman who wants a giant tattoo of a dragon on their backs: Hachette Australia wants to use your precious flesh as advertising for the latest book in the Dragon Tattoo series by Stieg Larsson. The good news: free tattoo. The bad news: you’d be participating in something literally called…

Last week there was a news item from The Hollywood Reporter regarding the possibility that David Fincher's next film might be Gone Girl. But wasn't he supposed to be working on The Girl Who Played With Fire?

Despite the fact that the book was a global bestseller, and the US version of the film generated tons of buzz, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo has not been a blockbuster at the box office. It opened behindMission Impossible: Ghost Booty Call ($29 M) and Sherlock 2 ($20 M), making only $12 million opening weekend. $12…

Director David Fincher tellsEW: "Rooney's a beautiful girl… She can look like Audrey Hepburn — but she can also look like a boy. So we'd decide where we wanted to put the stud through her eyebrow by asking, ‘Where is it going to be most in the way? Where is the most distracting place?'" And: "We had to be really sure…

Rooney Mara is sad, you guys. She and the rest of the Girl With the Dragon Tattoo team put a lot of thought into what hair Lisbeth Salander would have between her legs, and now she's worried that we won't even notice! Mara says:

David Fincher's highly-anticipated Girl With the Dragon Tattoo had its world premiere last night in London. With the exception of the film's main stars, Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara, the red carpet fashion was a trainwreck. Which I suppose is appropriate, given the film's dark subjects.

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo: now with more plot! We've already had a glimpse of David Fincher's take on Stieg Larsson's novel, but this extended trailer offers more info on Daniel Craig's Swedish accent and Lisbeth Salander's lesbianism (but no torture scenes).

The fairly explicit posters for The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo are just the tip of the iceberg: Daniel Craig says the film is "as adult as you can possibly make it." Director David Fincher showed him an early cut of the flick, and James Bond freaked:"Fincher, he's not holding back. They've given him free rein. He…

Stieg Larsson's brother says that days before his death, Stieg said he'd "nearly finished" another Girl With The Dragon Tattoobook. However, the family says they won't let the novel, intended as the fifth in the series, to be published.

Rooney Mara has landed the role of Lisbeth Salander in David Fincher's highly anticipated adaptation of Steig Larsson's thriller. The relatively unknown actress appeared in Youth In Revolt and is in Fincher's upcoming film The Social Network.

When a genuine cultural phenomenon emerges for the most part through word-of-mouth, the boom can be bewildering to those who aren't immediately swept up. My first adult experience of this, aside from the rush towards Brazilians, was Eat, Pray, Love.